When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.